1808.] 
ternatély gently picking the tongue of 
their friend. Atlength it was resolved to 
allow one of these birds to fly abroadin the 
open air, whilst the other was placed out 
in its cage. I have known the friend. left 
at liberty to mix for some hours with the 
wild linnets, for this was on a heath or 
eommon near the school house, and regu- 
larly to return in the evening to his va- 
cated cage placed near ins confined 
friend. This indulgence of the common 
was conferred alternately on Robert and 
Henry, and with the same undeviating 
attachment. They never were allowed 
this liberty together; and probably had it 
been suffered, they iwoule not have re- 
turned; for each scemed to enjoy the 
company of the wild linnets, but so in- 
delible was their mutual attachment, that 
they preferred imprisonment together, 
rather than separation. 
One of these friends at length died, 
and the other pined away, and scon fol- 
lowed his deceased friend—ad sedes 4lluc 
negat redire sa taal 
Your’s, &c. 
J. C, Lerrsom. 
Sambrook-court, March 10, 1808. 
ee — 
Lo the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N answer to the enquiry of your Cor- 
respondent, J. J. G. respecting in- 
stances and particulars of longevity, in 
your Magazine for last month, I send you 
the following one of a Jewess, which, if 
you should think of sufficient conse- 
quence, you will please to insert, IT give 
it almost verbatim frum Isaac Abraham, 
the son’s, accoust, who will next month 
complete’ his 76th year. 
Sarah Lyons died in the parish of St. 
Peter, Ipswich, on the 5th of November, 
1807, when she had nearly completed her 
105th year. She was born ata village in 
Germany, called Ashich, near Os! jap- 
penborg, by the river Maine, on the 12th 
day of the month Adar. A. M. 5463 
{about the latter end of February, or be- 
ginning of March, 1703). She went to 
service at Amsterdam, in Hotland, where 
she lived till past her 27th year, at 
which time she married to Jacob: Abra- 
ham, by whom she had one clnld only 
{the above-mentioned son), born on the 
12th day of the month Nisan, A. M. 
5492 (April, 1732), and three months af- 
terwards her husband died. She then 
came over to England, and was soon af- 
ter married to Abraham Lyons, with 
whom she lived upwards of thirty years, 
4 
Instances of Longevity: —Lyons and Old Ingall. 
221 
but had no children by him. She conti- 
nued a widow, and survived him nearly 
forty years, She never had any long 
sickness, except about forty years ago 
that she was much troubled by a stop= 
page of urine. Her diet consisted prin- 
cipally of soups and vegetables, with a 
large portion of fat, or butter (of whieh 
she was very fond), mixed with them, 
and oecasionally fish. For supper, she 
took only a small piece of bread and but- 
ter, and half a pint of porter. She re- 
tained her health and faculties all within 
two years of her death, when she was de- 
prived of the use of her iimbs by a pa- 
ralytic stroke, which she gradually sunk 
under, though she could eat, drink, and 
sleep tolerably, till within three days of 
her death. 
Your Correspondent’s idea, that long 
life is in some degree hereditary, will not 
hold. gocd in the present case, as the 
‘subject of this paper was an orphan at 
the age of nine years. 
Not having been much in the habit of 
making enquiries of this description, f 
may perhaps be unnecessarily particular 
in tries, and omit the circumstances 
most important: if so, I will with plea- 
sure answer any query which J.J.G. may 
think proper to put to me, for his further 
information, Atthe same time I beg, to 
know if he, or any other of your Corres- 
pondents, have seen any account pubs 
lished of old Ingall, formerly of Battle 
Abbey, Sussex, who died at Battle, about 
ten years ago, aged 120 years. Being 
there at that time, I had no oppertunity 
of seeing him till after he was dead : he 
appeared to be rather under the mid- 
dling size, and as men usuaily look about 
80 or 90. I was informed he had left 
the Abbey only a few days. In his life 
time, I believe some curious information 
might have been collected from him, as I 
have heard he was very proud of shewing 
a sword that hung up in the Abbey Hail, 
with which he defended the life of his 
master Sir Whistler Webster, who, when 
-travelling abroad, was attacked by rob- 
bers, and succeeded in killing one of 
them by running him through the body. 
I do not recollect having heafd whether 
he had been married, but he had one za-.- 
tural child; who was at the time of his 
death about thirty, and to whom he lett 
the whole of his property ; and I think this 
son was Called Ingall, and not by the mo- 
ther’s name as in such eases is usual, 
Your's, &c. 
j J. A, 
if to 
Ipswich, 
March 10, 1808. 
